Draft Agenda of the Workshop [PDF
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Agenda Items and Presentations
Guidelines for Strategic programming for 2014-2020 and measures related to environment/climate
- The environment climate dimension of RD programming, by C. Derzelle, DG AGRI [PDF
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- Climate considerations, by K. Kowalczewska, DG CLIMA [PDF
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- The agri-environment-climate measures, by K. Sulima, DG AGRI [PDF
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Session 1: Effective assessment of needs and definition of priorities, including external coherence and complementarity
- Raising awareness and improving RDP measures by involving stakeholders in the early stages of program design, by A Schulman, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland [PDF
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Session 2: Selection of measures, design and implementation
- Using a combination of measures to provide integrated environmental advisory services to farmers in Germany, by B. Rocha, National Rural Network, Germany [PDF
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Session 3: Effective Delivery of Environmental Services
- The Higher Level Stewardship Scheme in England, by G. Radley, Environmental Expert, UK [PDF
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Background documents
Outcomes of the Coordination Committee Focus Group on Delivery of environmental services
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Executive Summary: Final Report of the Focus Group on the Delivery of Environmental Services [PDF
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- Final Report of the CC Focus Group on Delivery of Environmental Services [PDF
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- Annexes of the Final Report:
- Annex 2: Examples of the delivery of environmental services supported by the RDPs [PDF
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- Annex 3: Background paper setting the context and the aims of the Focus Group work [PDF
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Other relevant documentation
The workshop encouraged exchange between stakeholders - such as Managing Authorities, Paying Authorities, National Rural Networks and EU organisations - so as to gain a common understanding of successful programming and design of environment and climate measures; and to ensure access to information on available guidelines and tools to accompany the process.
The European Commission provided general programming guidance. Three presentations were delivered highlighting: the environmental-climate dimension of rural development programming; climate considerations; and the agri-environment climate measure. Three discussion sessions re-called the conclusions of the work of the ENRD Focus Group on environmental services on the basis of the different stages of the programming cycle: programming, programme design and implementation.
Specifically, the Sessions focused on:
- Effective assessments of needs and definition of priorities
- Selection of measures, design and implementation
- Effective delivery of environmental services
Some of the key aspects highlighted were:
- The importance of involving stakeholders involved in the earlier stages of programme design and implementation.
- The necessity of accurate needs assessment, based on clear, quantitative and qualitative data. The SWOT analysis is crucial in setting the grounds of how to use simple cost-efficient and controllable measures that could be attractive to farmers, both in terms of financing and implementation.
- The importance of receiving timely, clear and coherent guidelines from the European Commission.
- Introducing changes only if really deemed necessary. Changes should always be justified on the basis of a clear understanding of what works well and what does not.
- The importance of providing trainings for advisors, using a participatory approach, and ensuring sufficient flexibility and time to allow farmers to understand and to be interested in planned results.
For more details please see the Final report of the workshop on ‘Quality design of environmental and climate measures for 2014-2020 RDPs’ [PDF ].
